Reality Leaker

The Trump administration can only find one single leaker?

In mid-1950s America, Sen. Joseph McCarthy's efforts to root
out
Communist infiltrators from the ranks of our government and military
collapsed amidst general ridicule. As Sen. Flanders of
Vermont, himself a Republican, described
McCarthy's bombastic efforts:

He dons war paint; he goes into his war dance; he emits his
war
whoops; he goes forth to battle and proudly returns with the scalp of a
pink army dentist.

Yes, Irving Peress was a devout
Communist and an
American military officer; but he was merely a dentist fixing soldiers'
teeth, his officer rank being a standard courtesy applied to Army
medical personnel. He himself was no serious threat to our
Constitution, and everyone could see that. Sen. McCarthy
became a
joke, then a has-been, and for decades a curse word.

To this day, the leftist media uses "McCarthyism" as an
epithet
whenever conservatives try to point out that certain beliefs and
actions are inherently unAmerican even if they are legal. Yet
when the fall of Communism released millions of secret Soviet archival
documents, it became clear to anyone who cared to look that McCarthy was right: our
institutions were
in fact riddled
with Soviet agents, fellow-travelers, and sympathizers, just as
Sen. McCarthy had said. He simply wasn't competent enough to
find
the evidence needed to
expose them publicly. This suggests that our
government institutions which were tasked with
ferreting them out didn't really want to.

Trump and the Traitors

Unfortunately, conservatism never found a solution to the
problem
Joe McCarthy encountered, which was bureaucratic resistance to exposing
truths that
made the agencies look bad. Ronald Reagan won the presidency
by a
landslide, but the parts of his agenda that went against the desires of
the permanent bureaucracy such as securing our borders and cutting
spending never took place. In contrast, those agenda items
which government employees liked - amnesty for illegals and massive
military spending - happened like clockwork.

For the handful of months of his presidency, Donald Trump has
woken
up each day to the increasingly clear reality that just about every
single person for twenty miles around is his enemy to a greater or
lesser degree. While only the frothing loons of the entertainment-media
complex
feel free to fully express their hatred for Mr. Trump, it's
transparently
obvious that elected Democrats hold the same hatred;
they just
hide it a bit better.

From the avalanche of negative leaks, there can be no
doubt that vast hordes of government bureaucrats are laboring mightily
to undo
the election. Donald Trump cannot even enjoy an extra scoop of ice cream
without a media troll
leaking it and CNN spinning it to cast him as
Satan with
jimmies.

Which is why we are so disturbed by the news that, finally,
amongst
the dozens of felonious leakers high and low throughout the entire
government, one
has been
caught. Step forward, Reality Winner!

Ms Winner, an Air Force veteran with a top-level security
clearance,
has been
arrested on espionage charges, accused of mailing a classified document
to a news website.

The website did in fact receive the highly-classified
document, as anyone can
find out with a quick Google. It has to have come from
somewhere,
and whoever contributed it has committed a major felony. We
don't know for sure whether Ms Winner did it, but it shouldn't be too
hard to prove, and that's what we have courts for.

But if anyone thinks this proves that our government
security investigators
are doing their job, they're nuts. In theory, anyone granted
access to high-level classified information is supposed to be
thoroughly investigated for signs that they'll turn
traitor. This
is what Mr. Trump meant when he said that he wanted to delay letting
people into the country until we figured out how to "vet" them.

Our vetting agencies should be looking for signs like writing
in a
letter, "I want to burn the White
House down
and go live in Kurdistan," which, according to news reports, she did.

There are many Americans protesting US govt aggression
towards
Iran.
If our Tangerine in Chief declares war, we stand with you!

If that isn't a sign of the possibility that the writer might
be open to committing treason, we don't know what is. Yet
she waltzed freely in and out
of a highly classified workplace for months, our intelligence agencies
none the wiser.

Ms Winner did everything short of walking into work wearing a
suicide vest and waving an ISIS flag - and thus far, she is the only leaker who's
seen the inside of a courtroom. Lest you suspect that we're
raising expectations that can't be met,
the Harvard University Admissions Department
recently rescinded their admissions letters to a group of incoming
freshmen who'd made politically-incorrect remarks on a
supposedly-private Facebook page. Why did the admissions
office
do that? Because Harvard cares about the
thoughts and
motivations
of anyone who inhabits their sacred halls - or at least, they care
enough to examine their Facebook pages and
Twitter feeds.

Harvard isn't alone. Apple has a formidable security apparatus
charged with finding and stopping leaks about upcoming
Apple products. It's staffed with alumni of NSA, FBI, the Secret
Service, and Military Inteligence. These people are able to
stop leaks from Apple, but evidently their former colleagues
can't do it in the government.

If Harvard and Apple can do that on their own dime, why can't our
vaunted
security services do it at our expense? Perhaps
they don't care who they let into our intelligence services any more
than
our elites care about who comes into our country? Or, worse,
could this likely leaker be precisely the kind of
person they want handling our sensitive intelligence?

We are constantly told that most members of our intelligence
and
security services are dedicated, patriotic employees, and from the
random sampling of those we've met, we're inclined to believe that's
true. Why, then, are none of these dedicated, patriotic
employees
turning in the seditious traitors and leakers?

Or, are they trying to, but the politicised higher-ups quash
the
investigations, secure in the knowledge that the dedicated patriots
would never break the law by leaking the (doubtless classified)
documentation of this malfeasance?

Meanwhile, ex-FBI Director Comey confesses in front of the
Senate and national news media on live TV that he himself leaked a
privileged memo concerning his meetings with President Trump for the
political purpose of
causing a special counsel to be appointed to investigate the
President's imagined crimes. Wisely, he made sure his memo
wasn't
classified, but it's still government property since it was prepared
on the government's dime, and leaking it is was still against the law. Yet
there have been no charges filed and nobody believes there ever will be.

Maybe It Can't Be Saved?

The people of the United States, in increasing desperation to
"drain
the swamp," elected a brash, pugnacious outsider to take the helm of
the ship of state.

Well, Donald J. Trump is now at the helm. The
problem appears
to be that the entire rest of the crew, instead of obeying orders, is
busily drilling holes below the waterline.

President Trump cannot personally punish all his enemies
throughout
the government, or even find them. He has to find some
allies, or
at the very least some obedient and reliable minions, or both he and
the concept of government "of the people, by the people, and for the
people" are doomed.

As
Americans, we tend to believe that our government is supposed to
operate in a certain way, responsive to the people. The great
genius
of Barack Obama was in realizing that nothing actually forced that to
be the case except that everyone believed it to be true. As
his
terms went on, he became more and more aggressive at doing whatever he
pleased via autocratic executive orders no matter what the law said,
from amnesty for illegals to billions spent on Obamacare in ways which
were not authorized
by Congress.

Aside from the occasional squawk from an obstreperous
court, he mostly got away with it. The media adored him,
Democrats accused anyone who criticized his many blunders of racism,
and he had no
trouble getting re-elected.

This lesson was not been lost on his comrades who still
inhabit the federal
government swamp. Eric Holder intentionally ordered American
firearms
dealers to make illegal salesto known Mexican drug smugglers in the
"Fast and Furious"
scandal. The supposed reason was to trace
these weapons back to the druglords, but nobody bothered to put
tracking devices in the
weapons, disable them, or even watch the purchasers. The
weapons
were used to murder countless Mexican as well as American law
enforcement officers - for which America's Second Amendment was
blamed. The Obama administration wasn't quite able to use
this
manufactured crisis to strip us of our Constitutional rights, but
neither did anyone pay any price for the attempt.

Similarly, Lois Lerner weaponized the IRS as a political
enforcer to
kneecap conservative groups while fast-tracking liberal groups, just in
time for Mr. Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. While Ms.
Lerner
was
forced into retirement, she'll be collecting a lavish pension at
taxpayer expense for many decades, instead of inhabiting a small cell
in Club Fed where she
belongs.

The bottom line? Mr. Obama showed that the fabled
"checks and balances" of our system of government are just that -
fabled. They only have power if bureaucrats believe that they
do. Now that they've realized that the checks are
meaningless, they
have the power, because nobody can stop them, not
even the voters.

The presidency of Donald Trump represents the final attempt of
the
American people to force our public "servants" back into their
constitutional cage. Thus far, it doesn't look very
promising.

Yes, from the evidence presented, Ms Winner belongs behind
bars. But unless the hundreds of similarly-disloyal
traitors and criminal leakers join her, both high and low, and
pronto, it won't make any difference.

The swamp runs deep and wide . There are a whole lot of people who assume that the Government is there to give them a comfortable living . When someone comes into office saying that government is suppose to support the citizenry and tax payers first, they fight. It is obvious that the bureaucrats' loyalty is to the bureaucracy. Not to the elected leadership. It doesn't matter if it is Republican or Democrat bureaucrats. It will be a tough slog. I guess an encouraging sign are the special elections in Georgia, South Carolina, Montana etc. Very expensive campaigns promising all sorts of things from the Swamp didn't work. Hopefully the elected Republicans can get their act together and deliver on their promises.

June 23, 2017 1:17 PM

Ecoute Sauvage said:

Apple has employment contracts specifying confidentiality. The Harvard admissions office doesn't - and it was not its sleuthing that sunk those students, it was someone in their private group ratting them out.